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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
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